The economy has kept a lid on storage spending, but there are plenty of startups and established names ready to pounce on the recovery.

One online backup provider that found a way to build its own storage servers on the cheap is sharing what it learned.

Some high-end data storage technologies could radically change your home PC in the not too distant future.

Sun and Oracle have been silent as their merger nears approval, but pundits have been anything but quiet.

Vendors from EMC to Sun are standardizing on Intel and AMD chips. Will the movement toward commodity architectures affect performance?

IronKey has developed a system for enterprises to manage and control risky flash drives.

Cisco is no longer pursuing InfiniBand, but other vendors and analysts see continued growth and opportunities in the IB market.

The solid state drive maker has found a way to make lower-cost MLC technology ready for enterprise use.

Linux BTRFS is coming — so what's the big deal?

The most surprising thing about STEC's phenomenal growth is that it's all coming from EMC.

The data corruption problem only appears under one condition, but it was enough to force Intel to halt solid state drive shipments.

The storage world as we know it is about to change — and not all RAID vendors are ready.

You've got all that data sitting around collecting dust. Why not find a way to do something useful with it?

Fusion-io says it has combined low-cost MLC flash with the reliability of enterprise-class SLC.

Plenty of companies are planning enterprise-class SSDs, but it could be a year or more before they catch up to the early market leader.

Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments.

Recent steep drops in the price of 10Gb Ethernet NICs mean that Fibre Channel's decade-long dominance will soon be over.

Mergers, hostile takeovers, turf battles, high-profile defections... We look at what's behind the turmoil in the IT industry — and what it means for the future of storage.

Data Domain once again says it favors NetApp over rival suitor EMC, but don't count out EMC just yet.

With cross-platform compatibility, a plethora of features and a hard-to-beat price tag, Openfiler is giving enterprises an attractive alternative to proprietary network storage operating systems.

On one level, the bidding war between EMC and NetApp for Data Domain appears to be a battle of East and West coast tech cultures.

File system benchmarks can be difficult to evaluate, creating tough choices for storage customers. We offer some tips on what to look for.

The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features.

IBM is adding solid state drives and new management software to its DS8000 data storage arrays.

In a shocker for the data storage industry, NetApp will acquire data deduplication pioneer Data Domain.